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Hi Phil.
Yes, press ALT+DEL. If you have your PC cursor on, and you are in
Microsoft Word, it will give your cursor location in inches from the left
and from the top of the current page. If your JAWS Cursor or the Invisible
cursor is on, or if you are in a program other than Microsoft Word, it will
give you the pixel coordinates of the cursor. It will also tell you which
cursor is turned on. This is the closest that you come to a line and
column indicator. The problem is that fonts are scalable in Windows, so it
is a much tougher job to figure out what line and column you are on, unless
the software program that you are using provides the information on the
status line. Microsoft Word pretends to, but it lies through its teeth
about the column indication because it only counts keystrokes from the
beginning of the line, so it would count a space bar press and a tab key
press as equal. It is a worthless measurement.
It was easier in the DOS days when you knew that each screen had 25 lines
and 80 columns and most word processors gave you 6 lines per inch. That
made giving you a line and column command very easy.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 06:04 PM 6/14/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>I am using Jaws 7.0 so is there a command to check the line and column you
>are on at any given time? Back in the dos days, Flipper had this feature,
>and I'm sure other screen readers did, too, but I don't know if jaws has it?
>Do you?
>
>Phil.
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